参考词典中take up的常规释义:
基本释义
- v.拿起,开始从事,继续,吸收,责备,拘留,占据,认购
参考例句
- This skirt will need taking up,ie to be taken up.
这条裙子需要改短. - He decided to take up journalism.
他决定操新闻业。 - Ted took up a position of hostility.
特德采取了敌对的态度。 - I'm thinking of taking the matter up with my MP.
我要向下议院议员提出此事. - The kang takes up two-thirds of the space.
炕就占了三分之二的地方。
- This skirt will need taking up,ie to be taken up.
英英解释
13个动词解释
- pursue or resume
[例]- take up a matter for consideration
- adopt
[同] fasten on, hook on, latch on, seize on, take up
[例]- take up new ideas
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- turn one's interest to
[例]- He took up herpetology at the age of fifty
- take up time or space
[例]- take up the slack
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
[同] start, take up
[例]- Take up a position
- start a new job
- take up and practice as one's own
[同] adopt, borrow, take over, take up - occupy or take on
[同] assume, strike, take, take up
[例]- He assumes the lotus position
- She took her seat on the stage
- We took our seats in the orchestra
- She took up her position behind the tree
- strike a pose
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
[同] sorb, take up - take out or up with or as if with a scoop
[同] lift out, scoop, scoop out, scoop up, take up
[例]- scoop the sugar out of the container
- accept
[同] take in, take up
[例]- The cloth takes up the liquid
- take in, also metaphorically
[同] absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up
[例]- The sponge absorbs water well
- She drew strength from the minister's words
- take up as if with a sponge
[同] sop up, suck in, take in, take up - return to a previous location or condition
[同] resume, take up
[例]- The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it
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